Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 til 1930.
Á fimmtudaginn, Október 7, 1884, Colonel James Hiram McLaughlin wrestled Henry Moses Dufur for what both men claimed would be the last time. The 40-year-olds specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling. The men wrestled in Detroit, Michigan, the home territory of McLaughlin. The match took place at the Detroit Opera House in front of a small crowd. Professional wrestling had not developed
If he had been bigger, Fred Beell would have been a dominant heavyweight in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Staðinn, larger opponents often defeated Beell only because the opponent outweighed Beell by thirty to fifty pounds. On the rare occasions that Beell wrestled a middleweight, Beell crushed his opponent. Janúar 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
During November 1921, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek wrestled a legitimate contest with Marin Plestina to settle a promotional war between Jack Curley and boxing promoter Tex Rickard. Pesek fouled an injured Plestina, who was helpless to defend himself. After the match, Rickard returned to boxing while the New York State Athletic Commission banned Pesek from wrestling in New York.
Í 1919, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek found himself in the same position as Marin Plestina. The dominant wrestling trust would not give Pesek a match with one of the “Big Four” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Og “Strangler” Lewis, and Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,
On Thanksgiving in America, Thursday, Nóvember 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout wrestled former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Mahmout recently to the United States to wrestle Frank Gotch for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. If Mahmout defeated Jenkins, Mahmout would prove to be a bona fide challenger to Gotch. Jenkins was the
Á þriðjudag, Janúar 29, 1884, approximately two thousand fans crowded into the Detroit Opera House to watch the first of a two-match series between Colonel James H. McLaughlin and Henry Moses Dufur. The crowd had to delight the organizers and wrestlers. Matches drawing crowds in the thousands were rare during the 19th Century. Organizers claimed McLaughlin was defending the American
Jack Claybourne, einn af elstu Afríku-Ameríku, atvinnuglímumenn, fæddist Elmer Claybourn í Mexíkó, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. Í 1910, Mexíkó var heimili um 5,939 residents. Claybourne hóf atvinnuglímuferil sinn í Missouri árið 1931. Upphaflega, Claybourne glímdi í Moberly í nágrenninu, Missouri. Moberly hafði íbúa af 13,722 íbúa miðað við 8,290 íbúar í Mexíkó, Missouri
Glímusagnfræðingar telja annað hvort Ed „Strangler“ Lewis eða Frank Gotch vera mesta bandaríska atvinnuglímukappann.. Þó að við vitum töluvert um snemma feril Frank Gotch, við vitum miklu minna um fyrri feril Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Ýmsar heimildir fullyrða að Lewis hafi lært aflamagnsglímu á karnivalunum aðeins fjórtán ára gamall.. Lewis
Auk þess að vera ákjósanlegur vettvangur fyrir atvinnuhnefaleikakappa og glímukappa til að æfa þegar þeir eru í St. Louis, The St. Louis Business Men's Gymnasium hýsti smærri hnefaleika- og glímuviðburði. Í 1898, fyrrum bandaríski þungavigtarmeistarinn Martin „Farmer“ Burns glímdi við Oscar Wasem fyrir framan lítinn mannfjölda í Business Men's Gymnasium. Burns var að breytast í að þjálfa glímumenn í fullu starfi og
Í upphafi þriðja áratugarins, öflugustu hvatamenn í atvinnuglímu, Jack Curley, Joseph „Toots“ Mondt, Paul Bowser, og Tom Packs gerðu tvöfalda krossa á hvorn annan sem skaðaði heildar dráttarkraft glímumanna sinna. Í kynningarstríðinu, Jack Pfefer stillti sér upp með Jack Curley og „Toots“ Mondt, sem hljóp út úr New York borg. Í seint 1933, Curley og